CORR Insights®: Is Treatment With Dithiothreitol More Effective Than Sonication for the Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Is sonication superior to dithiothreitol in diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infections? A meta-analysis.International orthopaedics · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Comparison of sonication with chemical biofilm dislodgement methods using chelating and reducing agents: Implications for the microbiological diagnosis of implant associated infection.PloS one · 2020
   Article
3. The W.A.I.O.T. Definition of High-Grade and Low-Grade Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019
   Article

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Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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